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September 2012 by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA). This is the highest merit of continuous HSE performance excellence as it is only awarded after 15 consecutive gold awards are achieved. In addition to the Order of Distinction we have also been presented four President?s Award. ?Our HSE is employee-driven so that it is the person- nel that have the power to stop unsafe acts from occurring. It is all about employee empowerment. One example is our new campaign iPower, which began July 2012 and will run until February 2013, and focuses on  ve key areas where safety can be improved: planning and awareness; transportation and driving; plant and equipment; workplace behaviour; and high- risk activities. We also bring our  eld staff together annually in a brainstorming forum to produce new ideas such as the simple booklet of key offshore risks that we produced a few years ago. The idea was taken up by the Fugro group and has now been distributed to all 13,500 employees in the Fugro group in multiple languages.? It has now been more than six years since Fugro Survey Lim- ited has been split from Fugro Subsea Services, and in that time the company?s revenue have doubled. Looking ahead, Fugro Survey Limited and the wider Fugro group count on the Fugro Academy, a training center set up in 2006 to provide new recruits with basic training and company familiarization before their six-months of technical courses in their area of expertise, as a chief conduit to its inevitable future growth. Nearly 400 people join Fugro yearly and, rather than poach-ing them from competitors, the company is keen to bring more people into the industry and the academy is the gateway for many into professional geophysical, surveying or engineering careers.?About 10 percent of our business is renewables today but we will see how that develops,? said Robertson. ?Most of our work is on the construction support side and with UK Round 3 projects starting in 2015, there are potentially huge proj-ects we hope to be part of. Within oil and gas there remains a steady  ow of prospects and new developments along the At- lantic margin and Norway that we expect will increase. Fields such as Rosebank and Laggan-Tormore are the new frontier for the UK oil and gas industry. Other markets now coming to our attention include the Norwegian Barents Sea and east to Russia, and west to Greenland. Meanwhile, Fugro continues to focus on the deepwater development of West Africa and the Mediterranean as part of its long-term strategy.? www.fugrosurvey.co.uk www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 39MTR #1 (34-49).indd 39MTR #1 (34-49).indd 391/30/2013 12:06:51 PM1/30/2013 12:06:51 PM